is it true, as bro jackson testified to the australian royal commission, that people can leave the religion freely?.
in my own case, yes.
i just stopped going and was never announced as ''no longer one of jw's''.
Is it true, as Bro Jackson testified to the Australian Royal Commission, that people can leave the religion freely?
In my own case, yes. I just stopped going and was never announced as ''no longer one of JW's''. End of.
As regards shunning.
Yes, I shun Jehovahs' Witnesses in general as I want nothing to do with them. I would go out of my way to avoid them.
background:.
my parents got the “truth” while i was in primary school.
i was baptised at 14. i loved school and was extremely studious.
Thanks for posting.
Contrary to what you may think, I think your experience is very common with others on this site.
I wouldn't bother disassociating; just stop all participation in the religion.
only a few days ago i was walking around the house in a mindless wander thinking if i needed to seek professional help.
then i got the courage to seek the comfort of complete strangers on the internet and found a world of support here on this website.
thank you simon and whoever else has made this website possible.
the sunday programme investigates allegations that the jehovah's witness ordered the destruction of documents that could be used during the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse.
was this in contravention of section 21 of the inquiries act 2005 which is punishable by imprisonment?.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0709v34.
The Sunday programme investigates allegations that the Jehovah's Witness ordered the destruction of documents that could be used during the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Was this in contravention of Section 21 of the Inquiries Act 2005 which is punishable by imprisonment?
hello and thanks to everyone for participating on this forum it has really been of much value, for those of you that post here know that your words are not lost you never know who is reading your expressions, lives are being changed and nonsense challenged.
i’m not much of a writer so excuse my untrained writing style and grammar but i want to share my story to help anyone who is visiting here to see that we are real people, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who have come here for answers, there is no agenda, just searching for truth.
i hope my story will help others as so many here have helped me..
Thanks for posting.
It's a bummer realizing you've been had isn't it.
in a separate thread on the very latest figures for the current world wide annual report of jws, discussion turned to how "we'll know decline has really set in.
one of the posters said: .
the figure that interests me most is the number of congregations.
According to the figures above;
From '89 to '97 inclusive,
Average of 4.3 baptisms per congregation of 62 publishers
From '08 to '15 inclusive,
Average of 2.5 baptisms per congregation of 67 publishers.
Average congregation size has increased by 8%
my great-grandmother was a jw, my grandmother is a jw, my mother and two of my aunts are jws.
in 1983 mom, then 18 years old married my father, a wordly man and was baptized later the same year at a district convention.
i was born in 1984.. my bedtime stories consisted of the bible stories and you can live forever books.
''he'd be destroyed at Armageddon. Other than smoking cigarettes there was hardly anything wrong with my dad,''
Had to laugh at that.
Thanks for sharing.
Looking back, what a twisted way to bring up kids.
Constantly thinking everyone is going to be killed any day now.
more about cars and n.y.c.. .
back then hundreds of cars were stolen, in the city every day!
the new york post said "the average life span of a corvette (sports car) parked on the street was 24 hours!
''Any way, he gets out of the car and starts jacking up the back end. Just then.........a car pulls up in front of him and 4 black guys jump out and before he could say a word, they start jacking up the front end of his car.........."HEY what are you doing" he asked ............."HEY MOTHER F.....KER!..........YOU GET THE BACK TWO ...........AND WE WILL GET THE FRONT TWO"......they said ........"But this is MY car".......he said .........."yeah?"...they said ......"YES" he said..........10 seconds later they were down the road, looking for more parts.''
That made me laugh, thank you.
i feel it is comfortable to say,.
yes her arc hearing has come and gone.. yes her hearing was so powerful, her allotted time was tripled!.
yes, information handed over "mind blowing" response from arc.
I'm a bit confused.
Are we talking about the Royal Commission in Australia that dealt with JW's back in July and August?
Are they still looking into the Witnesses?
this has been a controversial issue among doctors and medical ethicists.
i think it basically comes down to the fact that physicians have a responsibility to establish the presence of informed consent.
is it really possible for a person to give informed consent if they are not accurately informed?.
Slimboyfat said,
'' It's treating them a bit infantile.''
Most Witnesses, including myself at the time, are when it comes to the blood doctrine.
Mummy and Daddy said I mustn't, so I mustn't.
